Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentFirst Look Media’s niche streaming service Topic has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to the second season of the Nordic thriller “Arctic Circle,” which just started shooting in the icy wilderness of Lapland.Lagardère Studios Distribution, which was recently acquired by Mediawan Group, is handling international sales on the series and participated in its financing. “Arctic Circle” was produced by Yellow Film & TV for Elisa, the leading Finnish streaming service.The series’s second season will be filming until March and will launch on Elisa at the end of the year.
Lagardere Studios previously sold season one of the show to Topic, as well as Polar+ (France), RTS (Switzerland), BeTV (Belgium),.
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